Sessions recuses himself from Trump probes, rejects perjury claims

“Let me be clear: I never had meetings with Russian operatives or Russian intermediaries about the Trump campaign,”Sessions told reporters at the Department of Justice on Thursday afternoon.

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“My answer to Sen. Franken was honest and correct as I understood it at the time,” Sessions said, adding there was no discussion of the campaign in both of his brief meetings with Russian ambassador to the US, Sergey Kislyak.

Sessions had promised the Senate Judiciary Committee he would recuse himself from any probes into the Trump campaign, if they were to happen, and after consulting with the ethics staff at the DOJ, he decided to do just that.

"I have decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigations of any matters related in any way to the campaigns for President of the United States," Sessions said. “This announcement should not be interpreted as confirmation of the existence of any investigation or suggestive of the scope of any such investigation."

“I should not be involved in investigating the campaign I had a role in,” he told reporters.